Okay, I’ve played Wordle 1200 times, I believe every day, and I’ve gotten it over 900 games in a row. The last month or so was a bit nerve-wracking, with a six and two fives in three days in MayStill, in the last 100 games, I got zero ones, 19 twos, 45 threes, 27 fours, eight fives, and a single six, for an average of 3.27. My overall average, attributing my two misses as sevens, is 3.84.
As I have noted, if after my first word (AROSE for about the last 900 games), I get either one (or more) green letters or two (or more) yellow letters, I play in “hard” mode. In recent days, I’ve gotten only one yellow letter. In those situations, I then use TULIP.
The numbers after the word are the number of words left, per the NYT WordleBot:
Wordle 1,453 4/6
AROSE 199
TULIP 2
PLAIN 1
PLAID
If I don’t use TULIP, I try to use the letters in TULIP.
Wordle 1,449 3/6
AROSE 7
PURSE 1
REUSE
Wordle 1,439 2/6
AROSE 37
POLAR; the Bot thought I was lucky, but I just used the TULIP consonants
When I haven’t made a lot of progress, I try some go-to words, such DEIGN, LITER, and ROGER.
Wordle 1,448 4/6
AROSE 219
TULIP 40
DEIGN 2
EDIFY
Sometimes, there’s only one available word, but it still takes me a while, in this case because I had not thought of it as a word.
Wordle 1,445 3/6
AROSE 37
ALIGN 1
ADMIN
Now, this was scary.
Wordle 1,425 6/6
AROSE 146
TULIP 22
WOMYN 4
CONCH 2
GONZO 1
BONGO
Change of strategy
For the first few hundred games, I used the words TUBES FLING WORDY CHAMP, though apparently not for this game, unless I made an unforced error. So I would get most of the words, but usually in five or six.
400 games later, I was getting more 2s and 3s, and far fewer 6s. My pipe dream is to reach 100 twos before I reach 100 6s.
I’ve gotten better at it because I discuss the game with my wife and my Wordle buddy Matthew. The Wordle World folks are great, none better than Nola. We were nearly head-to-head before my second miss. Then she got up to 938 before her X/6. She wants me to get to at least 939. I’m crossing my fingers, toes…
I hope the word isn’t cwtch, because I doubt I would solve the puzzle!